Patent attributes
Enabling data portability between systems, including: submitting, to a cloud-based metadata store storing metadata describing data stored in a plurality of storage systems each coupled for data communications with a corresponding on-premises cloud infrastructure of a plurality of on-premises cloud infrastructures, a query; selecting a subset of the data responsive to the query and stored in at least one first storage system coupled to at least one first on-premises cloud infrastructure; and storing, from the at least one first storage system to a second storage system coupled to a second on-premises cloud infrastructure, the subset of the data responsive to the query.